Nigel Lawson Quotes

I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.

Nigel Lawson

• Community
• Style
• Interest
• Approach
• Foolish
• Productive
• Embarrassed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Weapons
  • Allow

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Space
  • Study

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Relationships

• There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • Men
  • Fly

• When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Part
  • Girls
  • Script

• I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Money
  • Never
  • Will

• Let's treat this country first and foremost.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • First
  • Treat

• I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Parliament
  • Reminded

• Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back, and fuck Jill on a hill, but you still ain't jack.

  

  Eminem
  • Jump

• For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Age
  • Couple
  • Sunday

• Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Children
  • Today
  • Attention

• The only thing I command is respect.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Respect

• I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Done

• I didn't choose to like Chik-Fil-A - I was born this way.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael

• There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.

  

  David Milne
  • Different

• I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

  

  Amelie Nothomb

• Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Party

• I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• So do fundamentalists believe in majority rights or minority rights? The answer is, apparently, neither. They'll pull whichever argument suits them out of its file when necessary, but basically they are unprincipled on the issue of school prayer. They have a big double standard that basically says, "Whatever I want is right.

  

  Bob Altemeyer
  • Believe
  • Prayer
  • Argument

• There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Eventually, when I recorded Release Me, it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Style
  • Vein
  • Release Me

• I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Community
  • Style
  • Interest